Rush'n Round

This is Dan stalling from writing up an Analog Electionics lab. Lord knows when it's really even due. I'll turn it in on Tuesday. Eff that.

So I came down with a touch of the plauge this weekend which is miraculously working its way out of my system. On Friday, my office had to be in the realm of 60 degrees on an otherwise hot and humid day. This, I believe, was the start of my condition. This morning I coughed up something a wad of something yellow that looked like a creature of myth. It was truly horrifying.

Rush has been taking up a bit of my time. We've had a couple of events thus far. Informals (walking tours) were last Wednesday and Friday. A few hundred guys ended up touring the grounds over the course of two days. Friday night, we went out to TGIFriday's where I displayed my useless talent of being able to balance fork structures with no help. While I have no pictures of said event, I do have one of a sculpture I did at a Max & Erma's some time ago.

Last night was tailgating for Rose's first football game. I don't want to brag (but I will), but our tailgating blew shit clean out of the water. Other tailgaters shut down and got the hell out. Somehow two grills and fifty brothers can just attract 100+ freshman boys and girls like no other. I ended up fetching a football out of a nearby creek without getting wet. It was a bit of a sight.

In site news, there was some time last week when I was making revisions to the Movabletype template and my net connection went to hell leaving only a half completed template. I had to wait to fix my connection before I could fix the template and restore normality to the universe. I then installed an MT plugin called Feeds.app that fishes out specified RSS feeds and returns the most recently updated dates for them. Little did you know that Xanga's actually have RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. They're not well known about, but they can be read with little trouble. Just put the person's username where my is in the following string: http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=soberkober. As a result of this change, I've noticed a few extra seconds in the time it takes to make comments to the site, but it's not that noticable if you have even a halfway decent connection.

Yes, I know the tagboard is flooded with porn. There's nothing I feel like doing about it now... if you don't like it, make some tags yourself.

The other day, I got my assignment for my Senior Design I project. Before I go into it, I need to give you a bit of backstory. Over the summer, I wrote data acquistion software for an "Incapacitance Tester" that's used to measure the force applied by a rodent's hind legs. It's primary use is to see how rat's favor their legs. Well, without my professors even knowing this, I was put on a team working for the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana. Our project is a foot-pressure system for stroke victims. In short, it measures the foce applied by a patient's legs. The coincidence, while astonishing, irritates me that I can do nothing to escape the medication instrumentation field I seem to have been born into. Between working at Union as a programmer, and that quick programming gig I did freshman year for an orthopedic surgeon's office, most of my professional experience has been spent in this field. It is written somewhere that I will do this forever.

Oh well.

The rest of the week features little news aside from a few rush events like football and movies. Hirth called me up today to say he would be in Indiana this weekend and that any place in Indiana is close enough to Terre Haute. So he's going to be stopping by either Friday or Sunday as a result of his planned to trip to Purdue (to tap some ass?).

That's about all I got right now. You'll be hearing more from me later.

But then heaven sends,
and heaven takes.